1694 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Soiety 1693 XVII. 470 Next, Let us suppose this Ocean interspersed with wide and spacious Tracts of Land; with high ridges of Mountains such as the Pyrenean, the Alps, the Apennine, the Carpathian in Europe.

1776 Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I. ix. 218 A ridge of hills, rising from the Danube, and called the Carpathian mountains, covered Germany on the side of Dacia or Hungary.

fossil linen

fossil linen: a kind of asbestos. Obsolete

1797 Encyclopædia Britannica (ed. 3) X. 83/2 Fossile Linen is a kind of amianthus, which consists of flexible, parallel, soft fibres,… celebrated for the uses to which it has been applied, of being woven, and forming an incombustible… .